Herbal Drug

Danggui-Jakyak-San (DJS), a traditional herbal prescription, has been used to treat insufficient blood supplies. Recently, regenerative medication for the treatment of cerebral ischemia has drawn the attention of many researchers.

Grapefruit juice interacts with various drugs by slowing drug metabolism, thus increasing their concentrations in the body. Based on this fact, numerous drugs are labeled to restrict use of grapefruit juice during therapy. However, researchers associated with The University of Chicago Medicine, interested in how to “harness this drug-food interaction,” have now found in a study of one drug that “patients who drank 8 ounces a day of grapefruit juice increased their sirolimus levels by 350 percent.”

Earlier this year, a study of 8,300 people with high blood pressure, who did not respond to their medication, found that 37 per cent of these patients actually did not have high blood pressure at all! It turns out that you could be your own worst enemy as soon as you walk into the doctor’s surgery. According to the results of the study, published in the journal Hypertension, the ‘white-coat-effect’ was behind many diagnoses of high blood pressure. Meaning that instead of having high blood pressure, you may have been wrongly diagnosed simply because you were nervous while your blood pressure was taken.